April is my coolest month. My scenes switch dramatically each day with each gig. One day, my Middle Schoolers in Peekskill retell touching tales of long ago, they gleaned from senior citizens. The next day finds me knocking the troll off the bridge thrilling four year old kids in Dobbs Ferry. Tomorrow is National Arts in the School Day, in Port Chester. I’ll don my colonial frock and knee breeches, to sing and tell the tale of “Yankee Doodle on the Hudson” with Rich Bala while we are the Hudson River Ramblers.

Friday takes me home to Cold Spring on the Hudson. I’ll share local lore to connect these billion year old Highlands Hills to today’s calls to “go green.”

Once upon this Spring time, Fairy Tales shall be written in a residency with second graders in Bronxville. Want to know my secret story ingredients? One trunk of trouble. Two talking characters. Three steps solves the trouble (as long as you are kind to the magic helper!) Four dashes of imagination – something surprising! Add five senses words and you’ve got a story worth telling!

The Rhinecliff Inn invited your tale teller to exhalt Great Britain on Saint Georges Day – the 25th! The month ends in Closter, New Jersey with myths of nature.

Next month is Medieval Manors and Manners! Albany! Long Island and Westchester! Sixth graders will solve feudal mysteries, get into garb to knight a squire, then, they’ll catch a unicorn. Vivant!